On 10/31/2011 08:15 AM, Michael Thayer wrote: > On 10/30/2011 02:27 AM, NoOp wrote: ... >> @ Michael: oddly enough VB does work 3D with GNOME3 ($ sudo apt-get >> install gnome); just doesn't work with Unity. I've also reviewed& tried >> the suggestions in: >> https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/9799 >> and >> https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=45549&p=205449#p205408 >> >> https://www.virtualbox.org/download/testcase/VBoxGuestAdditions-r74559.iso >> https://www.virtualbox.org/download/testcase/VBoxGuestAdditions-r74568.iso >> and virtualbox-ose-guest-utils >> >> Looks to be the same as this issue with VB ose: >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox-ose/+bug/862518 >> [windows don´t appear in unity (3d) when running on Virtual Box] > Since you commented on that ticket that you no longer think it is the > same I will not take that into account. But since this is due to > crashing applications running under the guest OS, you might just > temporarily enable Apport [1] to get a crash log (it might be helpful to > re-install the Guest Additions from the Ubuntu repository in this case, > since the symbols will match). Even if this is a VirtualBox issue the > information will be useful. > > Regards, > > Michael > > [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Apport#How_to_enable_apport
Apport's enabled & I managed to crash unity-panel-service & now have data in /var/crash. But I'm not sure that it's relevant at all; there are no crashes at startup & I only managed to crash it with a '$ unity --replace' command. I suspect it's something else that is wonkey; perhaps video settings. If I Ctrl-Alt-F1 I can't make out the text on the screen (even after uncommenting GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480 in /etc/default/grub. Given: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity which are bugs reported against Unity outside of VBox, I reckon it will be awhile before I sort it out w/VBox... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA® Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
